Opera
Un ballo in maschera
Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901)
Performed in Italian, with surtitles
Opera in three acts | Libretto: Antonio Somma, based on Eugène Scribe's libretto to "Gustave ou Le Bal masqué" (1833) by Daniel François Esprit
Auber
First performance: 1859 in Rome
Photo: Karl & Monika Forster
Photo: Karl & Monika Forster
Photo: Karl & Monika Forster
Photo: Karl & Monika Forster
Photo: Karl & Monika Forster
Photo: Karl & Monika Forster
Photo: Karl & Monika Forster
Photo: Karl & Monika Forster
Photo: Karl & Monika Forster
Photo: Karl & Monika Forster
Photo: Karl & Monika Forster
Photo: Karl & Monika Forster
Photo: Karl & Monika Forster
A highly charged story unfolds behind the roaringly glamorous operatic title: an assassination attempt on an open stage. True faces are hidden behind masks, while themes of love, jealousy, intrigue, betrayal and murder provide the ideal basis for Verdi's exacting dramatic style. In this "Dramma di sentimento", the power of human passions and emotions can overturn and change systems and worlds.
OPENS: 30 April 2018